Chapter 9, p. 161. The correct date for this version of the Gentileschi painting (Figure 9.2) is c.1612-13 (a later version dates from the period 1614-20).

Chapter 14, p. 236. The caption should read: Apotheosis of Handel,engraved by James Heath after a drawing by Biagio Rebecca (1787).

Chapter 15, p. 259. While more recent tradition associates the accompanying texts with Advent, Bach’s Cantata 140 was first performed November 25th, 1731, when Advent had not yet begun due to an early Easter – one of the relatively infrequent years when there are twenty-seven Sundays after Trinity.